Buckden Palace

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Buckden Towers; Bugden

In the civil parish of Buckden.
In the historic county of Huntingdonshire (Modern Authority of Cambridgeshire, 1974 county of Cambridgeshire).

Remains of Bishops' moated Palace include brick Great Tower, Inner Gatehouse, part of the battlemented wall, which used to surround the Inner Court within the moat, and the Outer Gate and wall. These were started by Bishop Rotherham in the time of Richard III and completed by Bishop Russell, whose Arms appear on the Inner Gatehouse, in 1480. Palace dates back to C12.

This site has been described as a;
Palace.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This site is a Grade 1 listed building protected by law*. (Images of England number 54294, 54295, 54296, 54297)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TL19246772

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 363084

Web site links

http://www.buckden-village.co.uk/
http://www.fobt.fsnet.co.uk/

Books

Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles of East Anglia (Malvern) p15
Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses Vol2 (Cambridge) p229
Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p10, 112-4, 118, 162, 179
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p10-11 [plan]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p225
Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p196
Pevsner, N., 1968, The buildings of England: Beds, Hunts and Peterborough p232
RCHME, 1926, An inventory of the historical monuments in Huntingdonshire p34-38
Inskip Ladds, S., 1926, in Page, Wm and Proby, Granville (eds), VCH Huntingdon Vol1 p268
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol1 p314
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p251
Buck, Samuel and Nathenial, 1774, Buck’s Antiquities (London) Vol1 p118

Journal Articles

Kenyon, J.R., 1981 'Early Artillery Fortifications in England and Wales: a Preliminary Survey and Re-appraisal' Archaeological Journal Vol138 p228
1977, Fort Vol4 p76
Simpson, W.D., 1937, 'Buckden Palace' Journal of the British Archaeological Association ser3 Vol2
Edleston, 1922, Peterborough N.H., etc., Socy., p40-7 and plates
Tipping, 1909, Country Life Vol26 p162-6

Guidebooks

Sweeny, M., 1981, A History of Buckden Palace (Buckden)

Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/huntseng.html#hunts2]
Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p241

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*The listed building may not be the actual medieval building, but a building on the site of, or incorporating fragments of, the described site.

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